This is a series of sections attempting to account
for the genealogy of some of the medieval rulers of the Balkans. There are lots
of uncertainties about these lines, since many records have not survived. Source
materials for most things in the medieval Balkans are usually not from
contemporary writers, and the few contemporary sources existing are usually
from Byzantine writers, not writers from the various states themselves. The
information listed here is based largely on Europäische Stammtafeln, but
modified by some recent scholarship by John V. A. Fine in his two books,
"The Early Medieval Balkans" and "The Late Medieval
Balkans".

Section 1.The Kings of Croatia of the house of Trpimirovic.

The first native prince to rule as Duke of Croatia
was one Trpimir I, who ruled 845-864; he ruled under the suzerainty of the
Emperor Lothar, but brought relations with Byzantium
much closer. He d.864; he had issue:

1a) Petar, d.ca 879

2a) Zdeslav, succeeded his father as Duke of
Croatia, but was overthrown the same year by his cousin Demagoj; Zdeslav later
succeeded Demagoj's son Iljiko, ca 878; he was overthrown in 879 by a nobleman
named Branimir

3a) Mutimir, Duke of Croatia ca 892-910; he was
probably, though not certainly, the father of these two sons:

1b) Tomislav,
recognized in 925 as King of Croatia,
d.ca 928

2b) Trpimir II

1c) King Kresimir I of
Craotia, reigned ca 935-944

1d) King Miroslav,
reigned ca 944-9, murdered by the Ban Pribina

2d) King Mihail
Kresimir II, reigned 948-69; m.Jelena N

1e) Stjepan Drzislav,
King of Croatia
and Dalmatia

1f) Svetoslav, Duke of Croatia

2f) King Kresimir III
of Croatia

1g) King Stjepan I of
Craotia and Dalmatia

1h) King Petar Kresimir
IV of Croatia
and Dalmatia, d.after 1074

2h) [probably] Castimir

1i) King Stjepan II of
Croatia and Dalmatia, d.1090/1

3f) Gojislav, Regent ca
1000

2e) [probably] Trpimir
III, King 986-995

1f) King Mucimir
995-1000

2f) Suronja

1g) Stjepan; m.Hicela Orseola,
dau.of Pietro Orseolo, Doge of Venice

NOTE: Duke Demagoj of Croatia, who overthrew
Zdeslav in 864, was probably a first cousin of Trpimir I; he had a son, Iljiko,
who was Duke 976-8; Iljiko was ancestor of Zvonimir Dmitar, who reigned as King
of Croatia and Dalmatia 1075-187/8; m.ca 1063 Helena, Queen of Croatia
1088-1091, dau.of King Bela I of Hungary; Zvonimir and Jelena had 2 daughters:

1.Claudia;
m.Vonick, of the family Lapcani

2.Radova, d.young
after 1083

Part 2. The Kings
of Bosnia
of the House of Kotromanic

The first of this family was one Uban Prijezda,
who in 1254 became Great Ban of Bosnia;
he d.1287, leaving issue:

2a) Stjepan Kotroman, Ban of Bosnia as a vassal of
the Nemanjiden family of Serbia and of the Counts of Bribir, d.ca 1314; m.after
1283 Jelisaveta (d.1331) dau.of King Stephan Dragutin of Serbia

1b) Stjepan Kotromanic,
Ban of Bosnia, he won the territory
of Zahumlje (Hercegovina)
during his reign; he d.1353;he was engaged in 1319 to a dau.of Graf Meinhard von Ortenburg,
but they never married; he m.1324 Elzbieta, dau.of Kazimierz of Kujavia, Pr of
Inowraclaw and Gnesen

1c) Jelisaveta (drowned
in prison in Dalmatia shortly before 16 Jan 1387); m.1353 King
Louis I of Hungary
and Poland
(d.1382)

2d) [illegitimate, and
there is not complete certainty about his exact relationship to this house]
Stjepan Ostoja, King of Bosnia
1398-1404 and again 1409-18; m.1st Vitaca N; m.2nd Kujeva
N, whom he repudiated 1415; m.3rd before Oct 1416 Jelena Nelipic
(d.ca 1422) sister of Ivanic, Knez of Cetin, Ban of Croatia

1e)
[by 2nd m.]Stjepan Ostrojic, King of Bosnia 1418 to
1420, when he was overthrown; he was dead by 1422

1e) Dobroslaw, King of
Diocleia 1101-2, he was overthrown, blinded and banished to a monastery

2e) Djordje, King of
Diocleia 1114-8 and again 1125-31, d.in Byzantine imprisonment after 1131

3e) Markus, living 1114

4e) Arcisius, living
1114

5e) Mihailo

6e) Tomas

2d) Vladimir, King of
Diocleia 1115, d.of poisoning at the orders of Queen Jakvinta; he married a
dau.of Vukan, Grand Zupan of Srpsko Zagorje; J.Fine says that this Vladimir was
son of another Vladimir, who was son of King Mihail

3d) Petrislav, Zupan of
Srpsko Zagorje, d.ca 1082; he had a known son, Kocopar; J.Fine suggests that he
was also father of Marko, Zupan of Diocleia, and Vukan, Zupan of Raska
(Serbia); other sources list these two men as uncles of Uros, the ancestor of
the Nemjaniden family

4d) Nicephoros

5d) Theodoros

3c) Saanec, b.before
1025

4c) Radoslav, Knez of
Zahumlje

1d) Branislaw, d.1101

1e) Grubesa, Knez of
Diocleia 1118-25, k.a.Antivari 1125

1f) Radoslav Gradisnic,
Knez of Diocleia

2f) Jovan

3f) Vladimir

2e) Gradinha, Knez of
Diocleia ca 1135-46

3e) Predinha, beheaded
by Konstantin Bodin ca 1101 at Dubrovnik

4e) Predislav

5e) Tvardislav

6e) Dragello

2d) Dobroslav, King of
Diocleia 1102, he was deposed, castrated and blinded; J.Fine suggests that he
may have been a son of King Mihail's 2nd marriage

5c) Predimir, k.a.1054/5

Part 4. The Zupans
of Serbia
in the 12th century

One Uros became Zupan of Serbia,
first under Hungarian, then Byzantine suzerainty; b.ca 1080, d.after 1130;
m.Anna, probably dau.of Konstantinos Diogenes; they had issue:

5a) a dau., m.Bjelos, Ban of Croatia, Regent of
Hungary, may have reigned briefly in Serbia; J.Fine suggests that Bjelos was
son, not son-in-law, of Uros

Part 5.The Nemanjiden. It is unknown where this
family came from or how they so quickly acquired their prominence in Serbia,
but some scholars suggest that they may have been related to or part of the
family shown in Part 4. What is certain is that they descended from one Zupan
Zavida, whose 4 sons divided Serbia
up and fought with each other:

1e) Vladislav; he spent
his life trying to gain the thrones of Serbia and Hungary, but was unsuccessful
in both quests; d.in Hungary after 1326; m.1st ca 1293 Constanza,
dau.of Michele Morosoni; m.2nd 1309 a dau.of the Voivode Ladislaus
of Siebenbürgen; he had issue of whom I have no details